Foreword by Edward S. Casey Preface Prologue Part I: Music, Ecstasy, the Body 1. Music, the Body, Existence 2. Splitting of Sacred from Secular? 3. Where Are We? Locations and Dis-locations 4. Breaking the Trance of Mentalism Lingering Afterword Part II: Music, Art, Science, Genius 5. Fugal Strands to Be Woven 6. The United States: Experimental Nation 7. Music of Science, Thought, and the Body 8. The Mind of Music Final Benediction: Ritual as Music Appendixes A. More on Fugue, Mind, and Self B. Can Brain Science Tell Us Who We Are? C. The Body-Schema and Dimensions of Empathy Afterword by Gil Wilshire Works Cited Index
Bruce W. Wilshire (Author)
Bruce W. Wilshire was Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick. His many books include Fashionable
Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy and The Primal Roots of
American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American
Thought.
Edward S. Casey (Foreword By)
Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor at the State University
of New York, Stony Brook, where he works in aesthetics, philosophy
of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory.
His published books include Imagining: A Phenomenological Study
(Indiana University Press, 2000), Remembering: A Phenomenological
Study (Indiana University Press, 2000), Getting Back into Place
(Indiana University Press, 1993), The Fate of Place (University of
California Press, 1997), and The World at a Glance (2007).
"The Much-at-Once is an extraordinary edifice, a cathedral of concepts, a summa of Bruce Wilshire's distinguished and diverse writings. It is unprecedented in our time." -- -Edward S. Casey Stony Brook University, SUNY "For decades, the late Bruce Wilshire has showered us with incandescent prose, teaching us to reflect and see beyond the banal, the habitual, the perpetual vises that often render our experiencing inert. In this last bequest from Wilshire, he teaches us how to listen, how to hear." -- -John J. McDermott University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University
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